Contemporary T20 cricket is a place of warring philosophies. On the one hand we have those maintaining a degree of conservatism, building scores that may be defendable, relying on probability to return wins more often than not. On the other, the popular attitude of going full tilt at the largest score possible, a tactic that leaves teams short when they get it wrong but invulnerable when they get it right.
When caution fails, it looks hopelessly outdated, like some of the efforts from the Lucknow team featuring Marcus Stoinis during the most recent season of the Indian Premier League. When caution succeeds it can look like prescient genius, like Stoinis saving Australia from an unexpected predicament against Oman to start their T20 World Cup campaign.
